• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2009년도 IWAIT
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• pp.136-141
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• 2009

This paper proposed a framework for handover method in continuously tracking a person of interest across cooperative pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras. The algorithm here is based on a robust non-parametric technique for climbing density gradients to find the peak of probability distributions called the mean shift algorithm. Most tracking algorithms use only one cue (such as color). The color features are not always discriminative enough for target localization because illumination or viewpoints tend to change. Moreover the background may be of a color similar to that of the target. In our proposed system, the continuous person tracking across cooperative PTZ cameras by mean shift tracking that using color and shape histogram to be feature distributions. Color and shape distributions of interested person are used to register the target person across cameras. For the first camera, we select interested person for tracking using skin color, cloth color and boundary of body. To handover tracking process between two cameras, the second camera receives color and shape cues of a target person from the first camera and using linear color calibration to help with handover process. Our experimental results demonstrate color and shape feature in mean shift algorithm is capable for continuously and accurately track the target person across cameras.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.95-104
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• 2012

In this paper, an estimation of person height and 3D location of a moving person by using the pan/tilt-embedded stereo tracking system is suggested and implemented. In the proposed system, face coordinates of a target person is detected from the sequential input stereo image pairs by using the YCbCr color model and phase-type correlation methods and then, using this data as well as the geometric information of the stereo tracking system, distance to the target from the stereo camera and 3-dimensional location information of a target person are extracted. Basing on these extracted data the pan/tilt system embedded in the stereo camera is controlled to adaptively track a moving person and as a result, moving trajectory of a target person can be obtained. From some experiments using 780 frames of the sequential stereo image pairs, it is analyzed that standard deviation of the position displacement of the target in the horizontal and vertical directions after tracking is kept to be very low value of 1.5, 0.42 for 780 frames on average, and error ratio between the measured and computed 3D coordinate values of the target is also kept to be very low value of 0.5% on average. These good experimental results suggest a possibility of implementation of a new stereo target tracking system having a high degree of accuracy and a very fast response time with this proposed algorithm.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.2075-2092
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• 2017

Person re-identification is to match pedestrians observed from non-overlapping camera views. It has important applications in video surveillance such as person retrieval, person tracking, and activity analysis. However, it is a very challenging problem due to illumination, pose and viewpoint variations between non-overlapping camera views. In this work, we propose a viewpoint invariant method for matching pedestrian images using orientation of pedestrian. First, the proposed method divides a pedestrian image into patches and assigns angle to a patch using the orientation of the pedestrian under the assumption that a person body has the cylindrical shape. The difference between angles are then used to compute the similarity between patches. We applied the proposed method to real-time global multi-object tracking across multiple disjoint cameras with non-overlapping field of views. Re-identification algorithm makes global trajectories by connecting local trajectories obtained by different local trackers. The effectiveness of the viewpoint invariant method for person re-identification was validated on the VIPeR dataset. In addition, we demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed approach for the inter-camera multiple object tracking on the MCT dataset with ground truth data for local tracking.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제7권8호
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• pp.94-101
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 휴대폰을 위한 무선 인터넷 플랫폼의 표준인 WIPI를 이용한 모바일 시스템과 사람추적 시스템을 결합한 모바일 플랫폼 기반의 사람추적 감시시스템을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템은 크게 사람추적 시스템과 모바일 정보교환 시스템으로 구분된다. 사람추적 시스템에서는 감시지역에 침입한 사람들을 추적하고, 모바일 정보교환 시스템은 사람추적 시스템에서 추적된 결과를 사용자의 모바일 폰으로 전송한다. 본 논문에서 사용하는 사람추적 시스템은 넓은 시야 확보를 위해 카메라의 시야를 겹치지 않게 배치한 상태에서 사람들을 추적한다. 모바일 정보교환 시스템은 추적된 결과를 서버에 자동적으로 저장하여 사용자의 WIPI 모바일 폰으로 저장된 정보를 전달하게 된다. 따라서 추후에 사용자가 감시상황을 재확인하고자 했을 시, 카메라 별 또는 시간 별로 선택하여 영상을 재확인 할 수 있다. 제안된 시스템은 추적 영역과 감시 영역의 공간적 제약과 감시 시간의 시간적 제약을 해결하기 위해 카메라들과 모바일 폰 사이의 추적결과를 교환할 수 있는 새로운 형태의 감시시스템이다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.78-86
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• 2014

This paper proposes a method of tracking an object for a person-following mobile robot by combining a monocular camera and a laser scanner, where each sensor can supplement the weaknesses of the other sensor. For human-robot interaction, a mobile robot needs to maintain a distance between a moving person and itself. Maintaining distance consists of two parts: object tracking and person-following. Object tracking consists of particle filtering and online learning using shape features which are extracted from an image. A monocular camera easily fails to track a person due to a narrow field-of-view and influence of illumination changes, and has therefore been used together with a laser scanner. After constructing the geometric relation between the differently oriented sensors, the proposed method demonstrates its robustness in tracking and following a person with a success rate of 94.7% in indoor environments with varying lighting conditions and even when a moving object is located between the robot and the person.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.2217-2229
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• 2015

Since the variations of illumination, the irregular changes of human shapes, and the partial occlusions, multiple person tracking is a challenging work in computer vision. In this paper, we propose a graph clustering method based on spatio-temporal information of moving objects for multiple person tracking. First, the part-based model is utilized to localize individual foreground regions in each frame. Then, we heuristically leverage the spatio-temporal constraints to generate a set of reliable tracklets. Finally, the graph shift method is applied to handle tracklet association problem and consequently generate the completed trajectory for individual object. The extensive comparison experiments demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제22권12호
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• pp.17-25
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• 2017

In this paper, we have implemented a low-cost mobile robot supporting the person tracking by detection using RGB-D cameras and ROS(Robot Operating System) framework. The mobile robot was developed based on the Kobuki mobile base equipped with 2's Kinect devices and a high performance controller. One kinect device was used to detect and track the single person among people in the constrained working area by combining point cloud data filtering & clustering, HOG classifier and Kalman Filter-based estimation successively, and the other to perform the SLAM-based navigation supported in ROS framework. In performance evaluation, the person tracking by detection was proved to be robustly executed in real-time, and the navigation function showed the accuracy with the mean distance error being lower than 50mm. The mobile robot implemented has a significance in using the open-source based, general-purpose and low-cost approach.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.331-336
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a real-time people tracking system with multiple CCD cameras for security inside the building. To achieve this goal, we present a method for 3D walking human tracking based on the IMPRESARIO framework incorporating cascaded classifiers into hypothesis evaluation. The efficiency of adaptive selection of cascaded classifiers has been also presented. The camera is mounted from the ceiling of the laboratory so that the image data of the passing people are fully overlapped. The implemented system recognizes people movement along various directions. To track people even when their images are partially overlapped, the proposed system estimates and tracks a bounding box enclosing each person in the tracking region. The approximated convex hull of each individual in the tracking area is obtained to provide more accurate tracking information. We have shown the improvement of reliability for likelihood calculation by using cascaded classifiers. Experimental results show that the proposed method can smoothly and effectively detect and track walking humans through environments such as dense forests.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.241-253
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• 2006

현대사회는 광범위한 지역에 산재된 다수의 카메라로부터 사람을 자동적으로 식별하고 추적할 수 있는 감시시스템을 요구하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 넓은 시야의 확보가 용이한 고정된 다수의 비겹침 감시카메라와 사람 추적기술을 결합하여, 한 카메라에서 추적된 사람의 정보를 서버를 통해 다른 카메라에 전달하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 추적대상을 자동적으로 추적하고 서버에 전달함으로써, 한번 추적된 추적대상의 움직임 경로 및 추적 상태를 끝까지 추적할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 추적대상을 식별하고 전달하기 위해 사람모델을 이용하였다. 서버를 통해 연결된 각 카메라들의 관계와 카메라 상에서 움직이는 사람의 이동은 FOV 라인에 의해 제약되어 추적대상의 정보전달에 이용되었다. 추적대상은 추적되는 동안 6 단계의 상태정보를 가진다. 제안된 시스템은 다양한 실내 동영상에 대해 실험되었으며, 91.2% 의 평균추적율과 96% 의 평균 상태율을 획득하였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 제36회 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.2796-2798
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• 2005

This Paper presents a method that a mobile robot can track persons in complex environment using particle filters. The topic of person following using mobile robot is researched in many different areas. The main problems of following a person are real time constraint, motion change of person during the tracking and occlusion with other objects. We present appearance adaptive models in a particle filter to realize robust visual tracking algorithm. Adaptive appearance model can handle occlusion with other people while target is moving.